E-bikes are the future we deserve. robinrendle.com/stories/this...
This Glorious Machine
An essay about e-bikes
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Got my nephew a Switch for Christmas and he keeps calling Mario “Romeo” just to annoy me which is outstanding.
Me trying to avoid feedback when someone destroys my design in crit
I bet I wouldn’t have become a designer if it wasn’t for CSS3 and HTML5. They came together at *just* the right time and captured everything that was so exciting about publishing and typography on the web. robinrendle.com/notes/the-er...
The eras of CSS
Without them, I wouldn’t be a designer.
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😂 I love this. “The UX of LEGO Interface Panels”, a look at the fictional interfaces printed on 2×2 sloped bricks. interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Inte...
Me: this icon is bad Me ten mins later: the icon is bad because the system sucks because there’s no UI engineers because management doesn’t do that work because the industry doesn’t advocate for it because web design is seen as a joke because the heat death of the universe…
I think this is why you can’t plan for design systems work in the same way that you can for a product. Because, quite honestly, no one has any idea how bad any of it is until you roll up your sleeves.
Last week I found we have four icon libraries so I started fixing that and then I found that our docs are pure chaos so I reorganized them and then I found the branding of the library was bad so fixed that and then and then and then…
If you’re feeling pretty bleh about humanity right now then just go watch The Farthest documentary about the Voyager missions. Holy heckin heck.
The fantasy of Master and Commander isn’t that we get to ride old sailing ships and kill dudes. The real fantasy of that movie is what if your shitty boss wasn’t shitty but was actually super competent and cool as hell and could tie ropes better than you.
I didn’t know Enrique, only shook his hand and said hi briefly once, but man Designer Fund changed my life so utterly, so completely, and I could never say thank you enough. craigmod.com/roden/097/
If it helps, here's the 2020 timeline of when stuff was called
